BarCampBrighton - 2nd & 3rd October 2010 » sponsors

Metranet sponsoring BarCampBrighton’s WiMAX connection

Jay Caines-Gooby — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:34:50 +0000

The Old Music Library is a fantastic venue, but it is lacking in one or two areas… It’s a derelict building, so it doesn’t have a phone line. No phone line, no internet. No internet, not much of a fun BarCamp, so we’re exceptionally pleased that Metranet who have supported us for the previous three BarCamps are once again pulling out all the stops.

This time, they’ve gone above and beyond the call of duty and have put in a temporary site-specific, dedicated 5mpbs symmetric uncontended WiMAX connection. It involved a little more than just plugging in a microfilter and an ADSL router. Take a look at the photoset.

If you’re a Brighton and Hove business and want a service with prices which significantly undercut alternatives such as SDSL, IPStream or leased lines, then get in touch.

PayPal Sponsors BarCampBrighton4

Jay Caines-Gooby — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:39:21 +0000

PayPal is the leader in online payments and is used by retailers and leading brands internationally as a secure, easy way to accept payments and increase sales..

PayPal has more than 193 million customers internationally and is available in 190 countries, providing your store with exposure to a large and truly international base of customers.

With industry leading technology and a team of experts dedicated to preventing fraud, PayPal can partner with you to reduce fraud.

PayPal has no set up fees, no cancellation fees, no additional gateway or merchant account fees and no minimum contracts so why not give it a try today? For most of our products, you can start accepting payments immediately and unlike a number of our competitors who will make you wait 30 or 60 days until you receive your money, with PayPal 84% of payments are received within 24 hours.

Whether you are looking to PayPal to process all of your payments or to add PayPal as an additional payment option, you can rest assured that you are partnering with the internet payments leader.

Get set for the MySpace sessions

Mark Kirby — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:58:03 +0000

Our Gold sponsors, MySpace developer platform, are going to be running a session at BarCamp on cool stuff you can do with their API. If you miss the session, they will be on hand all through the event to talk to you, run demos and help you play with the API.

In order to take advantage and join in the fun however, you must sign up to the MySpace Developer Platform by this coming Wednesday, as it can take up to 2 days to be approved.

Signing up is a 2 step process:

Create a MySpace account or, if you have one Sign in to MySpace
Go to http://developer.myspace.com/modules/ apps/pages/ApplyDevSandbox.aspx and fill in the form (you have to fill in all the fields)
Then come along, meet MySpace and have a play!

Don’t miss The Guardian Breakfast

Mark Kirby — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:00:37 +0000

Good news! There will be an arrival breakfast, kindly sponsored by The Guardian. Make sure you get to the event for 10AM and fill yourself up for a day of fun sessions.

Here’s a message from the Guardian:

“Guardian.co.uk one of the largest news sites, with 18M international users, has won the Webby award for the Best Newspaper Website for the last 3 years.

Recently guardian.co.uk has undergone a transformation that has seen a redesign and a change in information architecture to be more resource oriented. Behind the scenes, the technology platform has been completely replaced and updated using agile development methods.

We’re really pleased to be sponsoring and taking part in Brighton’s 3rd BarCamp, and look forward to meeting you all there!”

Yes, we are pleased to announce The Guardian will be in attendence at the event – so keep an eye out for their talks! Thanks again guys.

Last mini-sponsor

Premasagar Rose — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:10:14 +0000

Great big thanks to our last mini-sponsor…

http://interesting.ly, the social RSS reader that learns from what you do elsewhere on the internet.

Yahoo! Developer Network on board

Mark Kirby — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:16:25 +0000

We’re delighted to announce that the Yahoo! Developer Network have agreed to sponsor BarCamp. You may remember YDN from their sponsorship of the bar tab keeping Werewolf players refreshed on Saturday night during BarCampBrighton2.

The Yahoo! Developer Network recently redesigned their site so now its even easier to plug in to the Yahoo! API’s and create your own custom applications. Other new initiatives listed on their site include the 3.0 preview, Fire Eagle for location aware apps, the Yahoo! Music API and Zimbra Desktop Beta – taking Y! Mail and Gmail offline.

Its clearly an exciting time at YDN and its great to have them on board as sponsors.

BBC Backstage sponsoring BarCamp Brighton 3

Mark Kirby — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:22:03 +0000

The guys at BBC backstage have come on board as a sponsor and contribute towards the coffee, tea and snacks which will be available over the course of the event. Thanks guys!

Its great news that the BBC are involved in events such as these. BBC Backstage have been involved with previous BarCamps and will be continuing to support the grassroots community of designers and developers through a new set of initiatives starting at dConstruct. We should also keep an eye out for their joint Christmas party with locations in both Manchester and London, sure to sell out quickly.

I’m also looking forward to seeing the guys from BBC Backstage run sessions at our event, keep an eye out for them.

Madgex on board to sponsor Sunday lunch

Mark Kirby — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:26:23 +0000

Madgex, the UK’s leading job board software company are heading into international waters. Already working in Asia and parts of Europe, they are exhibiting in both Chicago and Hong Kong next month. They say they chose to sponsor BarCamp again because it offers a great learning opportunity along with the perfect chance to hone presentation skills and to meet lots of talented people.

Madgex are currently recruiting, due to their ongoing expansion and have several vacancies available, all based in central Brighton. Be sure to go and have a chat with them during the event.

Sponsors Adobe are running a FlexCamp

Mark Kirby — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:28:55 +0000

Our Sunday breakfast sponsors, Adobe, wanted to let you all know about an event they are running in London on the 28th August.

Flex Camp London 08 is a FREE, community-run event for everyone interested in Adobe Flex! Whether you’re just getting started with Flex or you’re an expert, Flex Camp aims to provide something for you.

We’ve lined up some of the most experienced Flex developers in the UK who will share their knowledge on everything from creating your first application, connecting to data, creating components and development best practices through to selecting an application framework for larger projects.

Flex Camp is an afternoon/evening event from 2PM and is being held at Conway Hall. It looks like there might be free pizza and beers from the agenda on their site (don’t quote me on that though) and there are some really interesting speakers, chances to show some of your work, and giveaways – could be well worth the trip.

Mini-Sponsors, Mini-Sponsors!

Premasagar Rose — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:33:52 +0000

And now… check out our wonderful last three mini-sponsors:

Plug-in Media is an award winning Brighton-based company, with a high profile client list including Sony, The Guardian and The Museum of London. They create ground-breaking Flash content, from exciting Flash games and innovative web content to broadcast TV.

Sponsored by Crunch, Freelance Advisor brings you every hint, tip, podcast interview and step-by-step guide you’ll ever need to get your freelance or contracting business started or working even smarter.

Inuda are searching for the perfect environment in which people can make a difference to the world by building things. They support various not for profit initiatives alongside their commercial activities of providing web application development, coaching and support services.